[sailingparrot]

Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub clearly stated that this wouldn't happen because GitHub's identity management is far superior to MS one.

However the opposite might very well happen: Use your GitHub account to sign into MS other services.

[forgottenpass]

>clearly stated that this wouldn't happen

No he didn't. He said "We love GitHub login. Your GitHub account is your developer identity, and many users are accustomed to signing into developer tools and services (e.g. Travis, Circle) with their GitHub accounts."

That leaves open the door for migrating all github accounts into Live accounts within a github namespace. The could have already done it but aren't letting it leak into the github UI yet.

>Use your GitHub account to sign into MS other services.

This isn't an argument they won't do it. It suggests that they will even more.

Implementing GitHub login for Microsoft's other products can be split into three categories of possibility:

1) Other MS services add support for GitHub's authentication systems.

2) GitHub accounts will be mirrored into Microsoft's existing account system.

3) GitHub's backend migrates to Microsoft's exiting account system.

The question isn't "if" but "when and with what UI" #3 will happen.

[petilon]

Far superior in what way?

[sailingparrot]

Users actually like it for a start :)

You don't have to go through 3 redirections to login, handling of 3rd party apps authorization is well thought out, and GitHub is already used an auth provider for many dev servcies, Microsoft accounts are not.